In this Bookstop episode, Suneetha Balakrishnan introduces you to Indian English writer Anita Desai. Anita Desai was a well-known figure in the field of Indian English writing before Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Rai. The wonderful literary works of author Anita Desai take readers on unforgettable journeys. Her writing has received three Booker Prize nominations.

In this episode of Book Stop, Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about one of the most prestigious awards in the world, the Nobel Prize. Each year, a year of preparation goes into selecting the Nobel laureates. But is the procedure as transparent, open, and well-maintained as we believe? Suneetha Balakrishnan talks about how the Nobel Prize is given to wrong people sometimes due to Judjes prejudistic mind and some other factors.

Suneetha Balakrishnan discusses some of the well-known diaries in in this episode of Bookstop. Writers' diaries are arguably the most popular. This list includes several notable people including Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath. There are hundreds of diaries available everywhere that were written during times of crisis and conflict in the world. These notes enable us to learn about and experience the pain that a great number of people endured. There are, however, diaries that were written with no intention of being published and went on to become famous worldwide. In their diaries, girls, such as Anne Frank and Helene Berr, used to write about their goals and hopes. But agony and fear were all that remained after that. Many had to leave the dairy and the world soon after. However, these journals now serve as a mirror of history.